who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.
Parallel translations
- WEB who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
- KJV Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
- NKJV who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, angels and authorities and powers having been made subject to Him.
- NASB who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, after angels and authorities and powers had been subjected to Him.
- NLT Now Christ has gone to heaven. He is seated in the place of honor next to God, and all the angels and authorities and powers accept his authority.
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The risen Christ now reigns at God's right hand with every spiritual power subjected to Him. This assures believers that their Savior is sovereign over all hostile forces.
Overview
Peter completes the movement from Christ's suffering to His exaltation: He has ascended and sits in the place of supreme authority. All angels, authorities, and powers are made subject to Him, echoing Psalm 110. For suffering Christians this is great comfort, since the One they follow already rules over every power that might oppose them.
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- Heb 9:24For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
- Heb 12:2Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
- Heb 10:12But when this Priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God.
- Eph 1:20–21which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,
- Mark 16:19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
- Rom 8:34Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
- Heb 8:1The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
- Rom 8:38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
- Heb 6:20where Jesus our forerunner has entered on our behalf. He has become a high priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.
- Matt 22:44‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
- Mark 12:36Speaking by the Holy Spirit, David himself declared: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand until I put Your enemies under Your feet.”’
- Ps 110:1A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
- Col 3:1Therefore, since you have been raised with Christ, strive for the things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
- Heb 1:3The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
- Acts 1:11“Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into heaven.”
- 1 Cor 15:24Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
- Acts 2:34–36For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
- Heb 1:13Yet to which of the angels did God ever say: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet”?
- Acts 3:21Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets.
- Luke 20:42For David himself says in the book of Psalms: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
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